They can never leave, they can't take a day off. Cows always come first, even below freezing on Christmas, the cows come first.
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They are free to stop and sell the cows, the land. Yet, they don't.
Often it is family land, all they know and no other opportunity exists. Also what happens when every single small independent farmer is forced out of the market? We get dog shit corpo food. This is why it is so important to pay local farmers for good food.